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Ermac
Title: Thread Killer
Joined: Aug 04 2008
Location: Outworld
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New Browser by Google released today thats alot better than Firefox(Which I have always hated), seems to use less memory too.
They built it from scratch but it seems to contain code from Safari and Mozilla.
http://www.google.com/chrome
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Tebor
Moderator
Title: Master of the Universe
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Gotham City
Posts: 6088
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Thanks for the heads up. The Incognito mode makes me raise an eyebrow though. Serving the public I see, Google. Too bad all our searches are going back to your headquarters.
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 "If you will not tell me, I will hurt people!!!" -Nuclear Man
"Do you hear? The alpha and the omega. Death and rebirth. And as you die, so will I be reborn!" - Skeletor
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
Joined: May 04 2008
Location: Sauerkrautland
Posts: 1414
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I read about this yesterday. They made a comic explaining the things they're trying to do differently. A lot of the UI is similar to Opera, which is good, because it's much better than that of Firefox. I also like the idea of having separate processes for each tab. I'd try the beta, but unfortunately they're taking their time with non-Windows versions.
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
Posts: 5042
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it seems to work pretty well
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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I'm using it now and find that it is pretty robust. Has a document element inspector built in.
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
Posts: 16127
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just started using it.
pretty fucking cool so far
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Mr. Bomberman
2009 Forum Champion
Title: (still) token black.
Joined: Jan 27 2006
Location: Home of the lost towers
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username
Title: owner of a lonely heart
Joined: Jul 06 2007
Location: phoenix, az usa
Posts: 16127
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Mr. Bomberman wrote: |
It's cool shit.
I like how you can adjust any text window, like the quick reply ones here. |
i hadnt even noticed that until you mentioned it.
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Tebor
Moderator
Title: Master of the Universe
Joined: Aug 22 2005
Location: Gotham City
Posts: 6088
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That's a really weird feature to implement. I'm trying to think when I'd use it, but, true, I like having the option.
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 "If you will not tell me, I will hurt people!!!" -Nuclear Man
"Do you hear? The alpha and the omega. Death and rebirth. And as you die, so will I be reborn!" - Skeletor
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Burt Reynolds
Title: Bentley Bear
Joined: Apr 07 2008
Location: California
Posts: 1399
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The special porn browser would have been very useful a couple years ago, when i gave a shit about what people found on my computer.
I'm liking it's memory management pretty well so far. Seems to be using significantly less memory than Firefox, though with my cpu, and most cpu's these days, memory is almost a non-issue.
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
Joined: May 04 2008
Location: Sauerkrautland
Posts: 1414
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Burt Reynolds wrote: |
though with my cpu, and most cpu's these days, memory is almost a non-issue. |
This reminds me of my geography teacher in school who once said that "the number of files you can store on those micro processors doubles each year". (Read: you meant to say that the amount of people's RAM makes memory a non-issue these days.)
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Burt Reynolds
Title: Bentley Bear
Joined: Apr 07 2008
Location: California
Posts: 1399
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Tyop wrote: |
Burt Reynolds wrote: |
though with my cpu, and most cpu's these days, memory is almost a non-issue. |
This reminds me of my geography teacher in school who once said that "the number of files you can store on those micro processors doubles each year". (Read: you meant to say that the amount of people's RAM makes memory a non-issue these days.) |
Yes you are right. Although I was meaning to say computer as a whole, or the tower. I don't know why I do it, but I often refer to the entire computer as the CPU. This is especially bad on my part, because I used to get infuriated when I worked as a "tech" at a retail store, and people would refer to the tower as the modem, and the hard drive as ram etc.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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Tyop,
One could argue that he was discussing an increase to L2 Cache.
Processors now have upwards of 12MB of fucking cache. 12MB. I bet when your geography teacher made his comment 12MB of memory would have cost around $50,000.
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
Joined: May 04 2008
Location: Sauerkrautland
Posts: 1414
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Nah, he just had no idea what he was talking about.
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Blackout
Title: Captain Oblivious
Joined: Sep 01 2007
Location: That Rainy State
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Which asshat administrator at your school led the Geography teacher to believe he was qualified to teach students about computers?
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
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Blackout wrote: |
Which asshat administrator at your school led the Geography teacher to believe he was qualified to teach students about computers?  |
It was a chemist at my high school.
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Tyop
Title: Grammar Nazi
Joined: May 04 2008
Location: Sauerkrautland
Posts: 1414
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Blackout wrote: |
Which asshat administrator at your school led the Geography teacher to believe he was qualified to teach students about computers?  |
He didn't actually teach about computers, he just couldn't stay on topic. Kinda like us.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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Tyop wrote: |
Blackout wrote: |
Which asshat administrator at your school led the Geography teacher to believe he was qualified to teach students about computers?  |
He didn't actually teach about computers, he just couldn't stay on topic. Kinda like us. |
Wanna go ride bikes?
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